Hard Drive Crash-how can I recover the files?

My laptop crashed, firstly the screen went black, so I married a VGA cable and connected to my tv but nothing came, and then told me to remove my old hard drive, so I could transfer files to another computer using my old drive as an external drive. I got a connector which allow me to hang it up to my USB but when I tried to find my files that I looked on the Z: drive that showed on my other laptop so I guess that's my old hard drive, but it said no file found. Help! I have all my pictures and documents on it and I need to know if there is a way to recover my files or they are gone forever.

Depending on the reason for your computer crashing on as he did, you've probably lost everything. Why did not the backups of your data?

Try using a file on the disk recovery program, but don't expect too much. The real world of file recovery is a bit different from what you see on television crime...

Recuva... https://www.Piriform.com/Recuva

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